A coalition of major gun safety groups is pressing President Joe Biden to appoint a gun czar and declare a national emergency over gun violence. They also want concrete policy proposals beyond his futile pleas to Congress for an assault weapons ban.
The groups encouraged Joe Biden to focus on implementation of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act he signed into law more than six months ago. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Imagesfirst obtained by POLITICO, the groups are heating up the pressure campaign ahead of the president’s State of the Union address next week.
The coalition’s latest effort comes amid a flurry of mass shootings. But it is also reminiscent of the early days of Biden’s presidency, when many of the same groups wrote the president a letter outlining executive actions they sought, frustrated he hadn’t come out as aggressively as he promised on the campaign trail.
The Biden White House has made historic strides on gun policy. The president has taken a slew of executive actions, and his administration has invested in. And following back-to-back shootings in Buffalo, N.Y., and then Uvalde, Texas, in 2022, the White House worked with a bipartisan coalition in Congress to pass the first gun legislation into law in nearly three decades.
Already in 2023, there have been 41 mass shootings in which four or more people were injured or killed,. At least 69 people have been killed, and that’s not counting the thousands dead this month due to other acts of gun violence or firearm suicide. Now, with a split Congress, the coalition of gun groups argues Biden has more of a responsibility to shoulder the burden for pushing reform — and they insist that he has options on the table.
The letter also asked the administration to address the background check loophole by clarifying who is considered “engaged in the business” of selling firearms. The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act updated federal law, requiring anyone who sells guns for profit to be licensed. The coalition argues that by issuing a new rule, the ATF could clarify who qualifies as a firearms dealer and, therefore, who must conduct background checks on gun buyers.
“Because when you just say assault weapons, honestly, you just think about mass shootings But gun safety solutions are also critical to combatting crime, intervening in cycles of community violence, addressing suicide, and more,” Ambler said. Along similar lines, the coalition’s letter asked the president to use his office “to communicate the scope of this crisis.”
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